AMUSEMENTS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3489, 18 May 1920, Page 4

AMUSEMENTS.

THE KING'S. SHACKLETON IN‘ ANTARCTICA. The thrilling story of Sir Ernest Shacklet;-onfs dash for the South Pole as admirably pourtrayed in the film which is being shown at the King’s_ to-night constitutes one of the most thrilling adventures in the history of of polar exploration‘, has already set the seal on the fame of Captain Frank‘ Hurley as a great photographer. It is an extraordinary ‘record of stirring days and inspiring’ sceneg. Opening with pictures of the leaders of the expedition. the film proceeds to show the bluff-bowed Endurance being fare-N welled from the old. Country. Ten

days after leaving Buenos Aires the ‘lookout sights" the sulb-Antarctic island of South Georgia, and the subsequent scenes show the Whalers at work in King Edward Cove._ The Endurance heads" out for the uncharted seas, passing the ragged coves Of the South Sandwich Islands, with the gnarled pack-ice and turreted icebergs Sliding up over the edge of the Wol‘ldCaptain Hurley clings to a rope as far fo’rard as he can getand films the opening stages of the ship’s battle with the ice. After two months? stubborn navigation, the Endurance reaches latitude 76.50 south‘, Where an inpenetrable and unbroken barrier of ice stretches out to the horizon. Sir Ernest Sha“cl<‘l’et'6n decided to make an attempt to cut'tlle vessel out. All hands turn to and attack the ice with picks, chisels: and icesaws, but the temperature drops and the men are helpless. As‘ time Went on it became more and more evident that the Endurance was a. doomed ship. She is shown standing Helpless and beleagured crushed in the vice of the ‘Arctic pack. In a particularly fine scene. the masts topple over and the hull is heaved on one side. "_l‘he remaining portion of the film depicts in graphic fashion the life of the max-ooned men, the adventures of the hunting parties, the voyage to Elephant Island. Sir Ernest Shackleton’s gallant dash for help, and finally the rescue of the castaways by the Chilian vessel Yelcha, after three other attempts had failed. During the screening of the film, the story is described in detail by Mr George Dean‘, who assisted Captain Hurley in his Australian lecturing tour. The mystery of the "Locked Room” forms an excellent support to the splendid Shackleton picture.» The picture will be shown at the King’s to-night only.

OUR PIC'I'URES——TOWN'

CLEVER ‘METRO” COMEDY AT TOWN HALL TO-NIGHT.

“In His Brothenfs Place” which is to be shown at the Town Hail tonight is a. clever story with a dual romance in which Hale Hamilton is seen at his versatile best. The story is of two Fbnothers, twins, who though of the same age, have not reached the same stage of success. J. Barrington Drake has attained the high tide of fame as a powerful financier, while Nelson, the other brother, is a clergyman of a small town where, he has not even succeeded to the extent of interesting his congregation sufficiently to induce them to attend church". How the business“ man brother takes his ‘place and wakes up the town without the substitution being suspected forms a splendid comedy drama.